1984 Vs. V for Vendetta
The government are the controlling powers of a people. They can steer the society one direction or the other. With an entire nations resources at their fingertips they are something to be feared. However, there are more people that make up the society than there are that make up the government. The ruling powers numbers are small and limited. A community’s numbers are vast, huge and limitless. People shouldn’t fear their government. Government should fear their people. 1984 by George Orwell and V for Vendetta are from two completely different forms of entertainment, created in completely different circumstances but have so much in common, particularly displaying the effects when people really do fear their government. The result, a misanthropic and unprepossessing society. A dystopia. The worst thing in these worlds, next to anarchy, is the government.
1984 is a society characterized by human misery. Truth is an actual state of matter, of actual existence, an obvious or accepted fact. A lie is a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive. Oceania is a living paradox where every lie is a truth and therefore every truth a lie. In 1984 George Orwell uses didactic and lucid language to make sure the responder can interpret it in no other way than what he intended. “The past was erased, the erasure forgotten, the lie became truth” By controlling the present, the Party is able to manipulate the past. And in controlling the past, the Party can justify all of its actions in the present.
V for Vendetta is a society under the complete control of the government although, it seems, the people have a degree of knowledge of the truth about what their government tells them. The government may not have as much power over history as the Party in 1984 but there is definitely a domineering influence from the government in altering documents to suit themselves. When the detective is searching for documents to the prison ‘V’ was in he finds that most of them are
1984 is a society characterized by human misery. Truth is an actual state of matter, of actual existence, an obvious or accepted fact. A lie is a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive. Oceania is a living paradox where every lie is a truth and therefore every truth a lie. In 1984 George Orwell uses didactic and lucid language to make sure the responder can interpret it in no other way than what he intended. “The past was erased, the erasure forgotten, the lie became truth” By controlling the present, the Party is able to manipulate the past. And in controlling the past, the Party can justify all of its actions in the present.
V for Vendetta is a society under the complete control of the government although, it seems, the people have a degree of knowledge of the truth about what their government tells them. The government may not have as much power over history as the Party in 1984 but there is definitely a domineering influence from the government in altering documents to suit themselves. When the detective is searching for documents to the prison ‘V’ was in he finds that most of them are